Baby Groot Created Just to Sell Toys

Baby Groot’s inclusion in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 had people speculating if it was part of a marketing scheme to sell toys.

James Gunn, the director of the previous Guardians of the Galaxy movie and the upcoming sequel, hit back at the claims and said he originally planned to keep Groot fully grown in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, but it didn’t fit with the plot.

When I was first working on the script for Vol. 2 I was planning on it being years after the first movie and for little Groot to be a grown Groot,” he wrote on a Facebook post.

But there was something missing. First of all, I thought there was a lot of development the group needed to go through as a group – and it would be a shame for the audience to miss it. And, secondly, for whatever reason, Groot just wasn’t working. It was then I came upon the idea of having Vol. 2 take place very shortly after the first film and for Groot to still be Baby Groot, with quite a lot to learn.”
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Gunn added: “All that said, I’m not an idiot. I knew if Baby Groot worked, the world would want Baby Groot toys and figures and plushies. But that certainly didn’t seem like a certainty when I was alone in my office conceiving of a story, and it most definitely was not the driving force of the decision.

I, like so many of you through the trailer alone, had fallen in love with the little dude – even though at that point he was only in my head.

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